‘Bonding with Birds’ talk alights at Garden Club of Newtown meeting

Published
12:59 pm EST, Monday, February 11, 2019

Margaret Robbins, owner of Wild Birds Unlimited, a backyard bird feeding and nature store in Brookfield, is giving a talk, “Bonding with Birds,” at the Garden Club of Newtown’s monthly meeting on Feb. 26 at Newtown’s C.H. Booth Library.

Margaret Robbins, owner of Wild Birds Unlimited, a backyard bird feeding and nature store in Brookfield, is giving a talk, “Bonding with Birds,” at the Garden Club of Newtown’s monthly meeting on Feb. 26

Margaret Robbins, owner of Wild Birds Unlimited, a backyard bird feeding and nature store in Brookfield, is giving a talk, “Bonding with Birds,” at the Garden Club of Newtown’s monthly meeting on Feb. 26 at Newtown’s C.H. Booth Library.

Margaret Robbins, owner of Wild Birds Unlimited, a backyard bird feeding and nature store in Brookfield, is giving a talk, “Bonding with Birds,” at the Garden Club of Newtown’s monthly meeting on Feb. 26

The public is invited to the talk by Margaret Robbins, owner of Wild Birds Unlimited, a backyard bird feeding and nature store in Brookfield.

Robbins’ fascination with birds began at a young age while watching her parents’ feeders, according to a news release. She is now an avid birdfeeder and birder with a life list of over 475 different species, and leads local bird walks in the Greater Danbury area and birding tours to Southeast Arizona.

Robbins has taken bird biology classes at Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology, an animal behavior course and has taught bird biology, nesting, bird-feeding and identification classes.

Before opening her store in 2007, Robbins was employed by National Audubon Society at its Greenwich center and also led Audubon birding cruises along the New England coast and Baja Mexico.